Vertex Cluster

Vertex Cluster is a system which allows sending information between devices connected to controller(s) and enables you to create bigger lighting management system.

Some important definitions:

• Vertex Group - is a part of Vertex Cluster. You can separate gateways into Vertex Groups in your cluster. Inside Vertex Group, gateways are communicating each other and send commands. Vertex Group can see other Vertex Groups (routing table), but commands from other Vertex Groups are not received.

• CUID (Cluster Unique Identifier) - is a Node.js based that returns collision-resistant identifiers.

To manage your cluster you should enter netconfig http://VERTEX_IP/netconfig/home

After that you will see all units which you want to configure as groups. Vertex group in netconfig it is NOT the same as vertex group in GUI/Node-RED. You have available 15 Vertex groups in one network, so you can create 15 stand alone Vertex groups. (recommended limit of Vertex controllers in one cluster is 25.)

The last step od netconfig is sending new configuration to Vertexes with CUID. We can choose sending configuration with old CUID or generate new (default). It is important when you are replacing one Vertex and don't want to change setup of a network. (generating new CUID for Vertexes causes creating new routing table).

For better understanding we can consider all options as examples. We can have:

1. Vertex controllers in one Vertex group in one cluster in one network

   

2. Vertex controllers in different Vertex group in one cluster in one network

   

Hardware explanation of clusters

You can see below structure diagram of vertex communication in cluster. Prosody XMPP server due to routing table is able to trasmit and receive commands or messages to other Vertex prosody XMPP server by ethernet connection.